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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic*doleō(“to hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European*dolh₁éyeti(“to divide”), from *delh₁-(“to cut”). The sense development is thus assumed to be that "divide" came to mean "divide someone into pieces, hurt".[1] Compare dolō(“hew, fashion, devise”).
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “doleō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 176
Further reading
“doleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“doleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers